Identification of Histoplasma capsulatum from Culture Extracts by Real-Time PCR
- 1 March 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 41 (3) , 1295-1298
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.41.3.1295-1298.2003
Abstract
We designed and tested a real-time LightCycler PCR assay for Histoplasma capsulatum that correctly identified the 34 H . capsulatum isolates in a battery of 107 fungal isolates tested and also detected H . capsulatum in clinical specimens from three patients that were culture positive for this organism.Keywords
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